Working with the Backup Browser

The Backup Browser is split into two panes. The top pane displays backup devices, and the bottom pane displays information about the backups stored on the selected device.

Backup Devices pane

You can view the following information about backup devices in the upper pane of the Backup Browser:

Column	Description
Device Name	The name of the storage device.
Storage Name	The name of the backup storage on the device.
Online	Whether or not the storage device is online.
Default	Whether or not the device is default storage.
Size (GB)	The total capacity of the storage device.
Backup Concurrency	Maximum number of concurrent backups allowed for the device.

Backup Details pane

You can view the following information about backups already stored on the selected device in the lower pane of the Backup Browser.

Note: For additional information about a particular backup, select its checkbox, then click Backup Information.

Column	Description
Client	The name of the client which the backup operation protects.
ID	The backup operation’s unique numeric identification.
Status	The status of the backup operation. Green indicates a successful backup, yellow indicates a backup completed with warnings, and red indicates a failed backup. Currently active backup operations are represented with an hourglass.
Database	Displays for application backups only. The database or VM name that was backed up.
Date	The date the job occurred.
Time	The time the job started.
Type	The type of backup operation. The type may include master, differential, incremental, bare metal, etc.
Size (MB)	The size of the backup operation in megabytes.

To view backups stored on a device

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Select Settings > Storage and Retention > Backup Browser.

The system’s backup devices display in the top pane. The default storage target is named Internal, but if other targets have been added, they also display. See About storage configuration.

Note: By default, the Internal target includes the default device, D2DBackups. Devices may be modified in Settings > Storage and Retention > Backup Devices.

2

Select a backup device in the upper pane.

All backups stored on that device display in the lower pane. If desired, click Refresh to update the list, or click Select Columns to customize the information displayed. See To customize the backup browser.

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To view finer detail for a particular backup, select its checkbox, then click Backup Information.

To customize the backup browser

4

Select Settings > Storage and Retention > Backup Browser.

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Click Select Columns.

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In the Column Chooser window, check or uncheck the columns as desired.

Note: By default, the lower pane of the Backup Browser displays all columns.

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Click Confirm. The columns displayed in the lower pane automatically update to reflect your selections.

To delete backups from a device

When you delete a backup, it is logically deleted and you can no longer access it. However, the amount of available storage will not immediately increase and might not increase at all. The backup’s physical blocks are removed when the system performs a periodic purge. For deduplicated systems, a given block might be referenced by several backups, and unless all of these backups are deleted, the block is not purged, and your available storage space does not increase.

Warning! This procedure permanently deletes backups from the system. Once you click Confirm, you cannot stop the process. Any selected backups and dependent backups are deleted from the system. For example, deleting a full backup deletes any associated incremental and differential backups in that group. If any backups that are set to legal hold are selected for deletion, a warning displays asking if you really want to delete those backups. An entry in the audit log is created any time a backup that was set to legal hold is deleted.

1

Select Settings > Storage and Retention > Backup Browser.

2

Select a backup device in the upper pane.

All backups stored on that device display in the lower pane. If desired, click Refresh to update the list.

3

Choose one or more backups by checking the desired boxes.

To select all, check the box in the title bar. Click again to deselect all.

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Select Delete Backup, then click Yes.

To set a legal hold on a backup

1

Select Settings > Storage and Retention > Backup Browser.

2

Select a backup device in the upper pane.

All backups stored on that device display in the lower pane. If desired, click Refresh to update the list.

3

Choose a backup by checking the desired box. Only one backup may be selected at a time when modifying legal hold settings.

4

Select Legal Hold Settings.

For a selected backup, all backups in its group are displayed. For example, if you selected an incremental, all incrementals and their parent full are selected.

5

Do one of the following:

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To set a legal hold on only the backups listed below, adjust the Legal Hold Settings For Individual Backups on the left.

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To set overall retention and legal hold settings for a client, virtual machine, or database, adjust the Retention Settings for your client on the right. These are the same settings you can set in Settings > Storage and Retention > Backup Retention.

The settings that are in effect for the selected backups are highlighted. If legal hold is configured for the client and you set different legal hold settings for a backup of that client, the larger legal hold setting takes precedence.

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Click Confirm.

Note: Information about backups that have been placed on legal hold can be found in the Legal Hold report. See Legal Hold Backups Report for details.